"Extreme aggressor" is a term referring to a strategy type for Go, a heavily strategic yet relatively simple Chinese board game that was played by Richard Slessman. This strategy was pointed out by Reid as an extremely difficult type of strategy due to its rather aggressive nature.

The episode marks the most times a different bookend quote was recited in a single episode, with a total of four, all being recited by Gideon.

The Metallica CD found in the laptop of Richard Slessman is the soundtrack to Some Kind Of Monster, which does not include "Enter Sandman", the song that allowed Reid to solve the laptop's password.